{"id":4973,"date":"2021-05-06T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2021-05-06T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T23:11:13","slug":"the-three-wishes-of-willie-the-wisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-three-wishes-of-willie-the-wisp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Wishes of Willie the Wisp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on the story from the Folklore Commission<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/www.duchas.ie\/en\/cbes\/5009178\/4994671<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Fairy in the Forge – J McNiece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There once was a blacksmith as broke as could be,
\nWho no future or hope in his life he could see,
\nWorking one day with anvil and hammer and tongs
\nThinking the issues of the time and life woes and its wrongs…
\nAll at once before him an apparition appeared
\nOne of the wee folk of whom folk are a-feared
\n“Willie the Wisp” said the fairy, “three wishes I’ll grant
\nTo help you resolve your troubles and resources so scant.
\nBut you must make the wishes today before noon…
\nSo get your head a thinking and wish for them soon!”<\/p>\n

So horseshoes tossed aside to his wife he raced,
\nWho for dinner some dry bread and a sup of tay before him placed
\nHe wished for just a small sausage on his bread to eat:
\nOne appeared just by magic, the fairies great feat!
\nHis wife was dawsie and a bit of a targe
\nArgued about him being stupid and suchlike she did barge
\nIn a fit of wild anger she wished the sausage stuck to his face…
\nWhen up jumped the said sausage and stuck in that place!<\/p>\n

Well they tugged at the sausage, but it would not give,
\nOr move an inch or a bit if they pulled on it every moment they’d live,
\nSo Willy wished that from his face the scalding hot sausage had gone…
\nWith that his wishes were used, to the very last one…
\nSo there is a moral to this quite odd tale
\nThink before you wish, or your lot you may fail
\nArgue not with those who your wishes will mock…
\nOr you may lose all wishes before noon strikes on the clock!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on the story from the Folklore Commission https:\/\/www.duchas.ie\/en\/cbes\/5009178\/4994671 There once was a blacksmith as broke as could be, Who no future or hope in his life he could see, Working one day with anvil and hammer and tongs Thinking the issues of the time and life woes and its …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3166,2925,169,23],"tags":[4418,960,4417,4419,4420,4416],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-folklore-commission-poems-inspired-by-records-from","category-longford","category-myths-and-tales","category-north-longford","tag-blacksmith","tag-fairy","tag-folore-commission","tag-three-wishes","tag-wasted-wishes","tag-willie-the-wisp","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1id","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2876,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/ghost-at-the-gate-at-willie-cartys\/","url_meta":{"origin":4973,"position":0},"title":"Ghost at the Gate at Willie Carty’s","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd June 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a story I heard as a child about a gate at Willie Cartys in Aughagreagh. 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